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"His answers are peppered with talk of pending patents, levels of confidentiality and intellectual property issues. "We're in experimental lockdown," he says. "I have to tiptoe around what I'm saying and hem and haw about what information is released. My partners and I have signed over one hundred fifty NDAs [nondisclosure agreements] on this." When I first contacted Snyder, he said, "No way on God's green earth will I let you into the plant." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Monsanto argued that Schmeiser knew it was contaminated and thus "enhanced" with Monsanto's patented intellectual property It demanded that he surrender the seed and pay the company a fee for its "intellectual property rights." Monsanto Seed Cops Snaring Farmers By Paul Euas AP Biotechnology Writer SAN FRANCtsm ?Monsanto Qvs "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in (999, and Hie company is demanding be pay it hundreds ot thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. McFariing's sin?" - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Intellectual Property Laws, Genetic Pollution, and Biodiversity Expansion of the legal concept of intellectual property underlies corporate control of seeds. intellectual property law deals with proprietary interests in innovations such as inventions, as well as abstractions such as words, ideas, sounds, and images. Over the past few decades, laws around the world have been rewritten to protect the intellectual property rights of plant breeders, allowing breeds to be patented and constraining ways in which farmers may sell, trade, give away, and even plant saved seeds. " - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"Add to their expense accounts all the lawyers they pay to defend intellectual property rights and to attack generic drugs, and it is a wonder that they have any money left to pay for actual research. Ten years ago I founded a group called the International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines. We succeeded in bringing together academics, industry leaders, and government regulators to discuss Alzheimer's and related disorders and helped craft guidelines necessary to demonstrate that a drug should be approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Monsanto argued that Schmeiser knew it was contaminated and thus "enhanced" with Monsanto's patented intellectual property It demanded that he surrender the seed and pay the company a fee for its "intellectual property rights." Monsanto Seed Cops Snaring Farmers By Paul Euas AP Biotechnology Writer SAN FRANCtsm ?Monsanto Qvs "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in (999, and Hie company is demanding be pay it hundreds ot thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. McFariing's sin?" - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Harry had a sense of how to make a match to a client's dynamic body-field using a QED field, which is put out by the computer processor itself, and software programmed with certain kinds of algorithms (a process that remains NES proprietaty, intellectual property). The software would analyze the body-field scan to determine the relative best match from a range of many possible matches." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"United Nations' World intellectual property Organization (WIPO), a body with the same relationship to wicked copyright law as Mordor has to evil. Anticircumvention laws make it a crime to tell people how to get around the locks placed on digital works, regardless of whether those locks protect anything guaranteed in law. A digital lock that restricts DVD playback based on region can stop you from watching an American video in India or vice versa." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Diana Sternfeld, an intellectual property lawyer reporting on the case, pointed out some common misconceptions regarding patents serving the public good, at least as far as UK law is concerned: When deciding whether an invention is obvious, the Courts do not ask whether the patent gives the public something which is 'good enough' to deserve the monopoly. The test for obviousness is objective but it is also qualitative and quantitative. There are no units of degrees of inventiveness." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "The decision of 39 of the world's most powerful companies to enter into a dispute with the South African government in 2001 over the intellectual property rights to their drugs is a good example. At the time an estimated 5 million South Africans were living with HIV or AIDS, and the pharma industry objected to a clause in the country's Medicines Act which allowed the government to override commercial patents where there was sufficient public interest. Prices to Africa were already a tenth of what Americans paid." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"The WTO's 1994 Trade-Related Aspects of intellectual property Rights (TRIPS) treaty requires new intellectual property rights in the area of plant genetic resources. "Free trade" demands it. Vandana Shiva has written about recent legislative efforts to bring India's laws into compliance with TRIPS by allowing for the first time there the patenting of seeds, plants, and other life forms. "Patents on seeds transform seed saving into an 'intellectual property crime,'" she observes. " - Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (Get the book.)

"So the pharmaceutical companies cannot own the intellectual property that's at stake here. As a result, they can't make money by selling these foods and promoting their disease prevention abilities. Broccoli is a powerful anti-cancer pharmaceutical When it comes down to it, there are many common foods that are powerful disease fighters. In fact, broccoli is loaded with anti-cancer phytonutrients that are far more powerful than any prescription drugs or chemotherapy at fighting and reversing various cancers in the body. Broccoli is one of the best anti-cancer foods you can eat." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The FDA's acceptance of the proposed trial designs in effect acknowledges that since the new drug is Pfizer's intellectual property, the company's research plans are subject only to its own corporate prerogative.26 The price of innovation All industries thrive on novelty; the differences with pharma are that, first, the degree of novelty can be well disguised, and second, its value bears little relationship to price. There are no stipulations in the licensing of a drug about the degree of innovation. And the rules by which science comes to be owned are by no means clear-cut." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "The idea is to protect intellectual property in the same way that copyright laws protect the creative works of artists. The trouble is that the world of knowledge is much harder to follow and infinitely more lucrative to represent than whether or not the structure of a few sentences or chords has been lifted. The stipulation is that inventions must be novel, useful and not obvious. From a public health point of view, there are problems from the start." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"This is where a new system of intellectual property rights, Creative Commons licensing [see Copyright, p. 337], and the idea of a "developing-nations license" comes into play. We can refine a license for use allowing design and engineering professionals to determine a level of copyright supporting widespread distribution throughout areas in need—while giving them full protection in the developed world. International treaties ensure such agreements are enforceable just about anywhere." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Patents would be obtained only to protect intellectual property from profiteers; not to be sold to the highest bidder. Independent Reporting Another matter that needs to be addressed is the formation of an independent group of statisticians. An independent, online reporting system for adverse events would identify problem drugs quickly. Results would be immediately available to doctors and pharmacists. With no affiliation to any pharmaceutical company, this system would prevent the hiding — sometimes for very long periods —of dangerous events being experienced by drug consumers." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Foreign pirates and counterfeiters, particularly from China, are costing U.S. intellectual property owners roughly $50 billion per year. Choate, Pat. A Great Wall of Patents - China and American Inventors - Selected Consequences of Proposed U.S. Patent "Reforms" Prepared For U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. 11/7/2005. http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2005/work-ing_paper_nov_7_05.htm 8. A major campaign to patent natural substances from around the world." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Dodds wanted to ensure that the intellectual property did not lie in German hands alone. Later in 1938, however, scientists working for Berlin-based Schering, synthesised and applied for a patent for ethinyl oestradiol. Inevitably, other pharmaceutical companies took out their own patents and rushed to market.14 Nor would Dodds's gesture stop the demented scientists of the Third Reich carrying out enforced hormone experimentation on concentration camp victims, as detailed below." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Many of us would see this as a serious loss of privacy, with enormous legal implications regarding liability, self-incrimination, even intellectual property. But it could also serve the cause of truth. A police officer lying about hitting a protestor, a despot lying about human rights abuses, an executive lying about dumping toxic waste—these are easier to catch in a world where everything can be on the record." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Attempts to modify intellectual property laws for its own gain, such as promoting proposals that would extend patent protection on drugs by several more years, thereby guaranteeing years of additional profits (at the expense of consumers) before competing generic drugs can be introduced. Suppresses free speech on the internet by pressuring search engines like Google to require "pharmacy licenses" from advertisers before they can post online ads for medications of any kind." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The vehicle would ideally take the form of an online resource consisting of a database of thousands of proven designs and best practices, a rendering tool with a built-in simulation of austere environments, localized subsites for regional NGDs, and the capability to facilitate needs-based competitions, project tagging (assigning words that define key aspects of the project to facilitate computerized searching), the integration of local and cultural data, and the protection of designers' intellectual property rights [see Copyright, p. 336]." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"However, indigenous communities are increasingly forced to employ intellectual property rights to protect these resources. Protection issues ought to be addressed well before the point at which employing intellectual property mechanisms seems to be the only alternative. Significant control lies at the point of decision about publication and dissemination of knowledge to the wider community, which raises important questions about facilitating the appropriation of cultural knowledge. The authors [98, p." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru (Get the book.)

"Corporate efforts to convert the genetic blueprints of thousands of years of plant and animal breeding to privately owned intellectual property represents a growing danger to the world's food supply. And it puts our public property in the hands of corporations that have violated every human right, that have killed, injured, and maimed their own workers and millions of consumers and innocent bystanders. With respect to corporations' insatiable desire to play god and clone animals, recent reports have shown that the genetic cloning of animals is very risky and plagued by fraud." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Protection issues ought to be addressed well before the point at which employing intellectual property mechanisms seems to be the only alternative. Significant control lies at the point of decision about publication and dissemination of knowledge to the wider community, which raises important questions about facilitating the appropriation of cultural knowledge. The authors [98, p. 10] advocate a more "precautionary" approach to ethnobotanical inquiry in assisting indigenous communities in protecting their cultural heritage and intellectual property rights." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru (Get the book.)

"The coalition wants the Peruvian government and the World intellectual property Organization to condemn claims and patents such as these that steal traditional knowledge from farming communities and indigenous peoples.16 After all—maca has been used by the indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes for centuries, and this marketing company learned of its uses through them. Traditional In the Andes, as much as a pound of fresh and/or dried maca root is eaten as Preparation a food in a single day." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Moran, King and Carlson [83], Manek and Lettington [95], Greaves [96], and Brush ans Stabinsky [97], indicate that the biggest problem with the orthodox intellectual property system is its focus on material aspects of knowledge at the expense of the cultural. They advocate recognition of alternative worldviews in the formulation of new indigenous knowledge rights that are localized, relevant, pertinent, and effective." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru (Get the book.)

"Rules contained in the Trade-Related intellectual property Rights Agreement (of the WTO), for example, have empowered global agricultural corporations to seize much of the worlds seed supply, foods, and agricultural lands. The globalization of corporate-friendly patent regimes has also directly undermined indigenous and traditional sui generis rights of farmers, for example, to save seeds and protect indigenous varieties they have developed over millennia." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"Yanomami Indian beside stream, Auaris, Roraima, Brazil. intellectual property rights of the Yanomami. This commendable practice drew considerable surprise and criticism from editors of journals and others. This practice must be encouraged in future work, which in any case must now be carried out with in-place consent agreements that protect the rights of any group being studied. Second, the purpose of their research was also to study the plants used to combat malaria by other tribes and the Luso-Brazilian population of the Roraima state of Brazil." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.) "The innovative aspect of this study is that it was carried out to aid the Yanomami rather than to exploit the intellectual property of the Amazon people for use in the developed world. This type of study, for the benefit of indigenous people, sets an example for future work. I hope that in future ethnobotanical studies we will be always thinking of how we can benefit local people rather than concentrating only on the benefits to the developed world. This is particularly important for studies in ethnomcdicine." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

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